TikTok

Backend Software Engineer Graduate (TikTok-PGC-Digital Content Center) - 2027 Start

TikTok$128K — $256K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Proficient in backend programming languages like Go, Java, or C++
  • Familiar with MySQL, Redis, MongoDB and performance tuning
  • Understanding of RESTful API design and development
  • Basic Shell scripting abilities on Linux systems
  • Strong problem-solving skills and quick learner
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Responsibilities

  • Participate in the architecture design of backend services for copyright protection
  • Contribute to the design of event-driven architecture and high-availability pipelines
  • Design and maintain databases for efficient data querying at scale
  • Develop and maintain RESTful APIs for secure data exchange
  • Handle system design for multi-data center architectures
  • Monitor and optimize system performance for bottlenecks
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure timely project delivery

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits
  • 10 paid holidays and 10 paid sick days per year
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time, increasing with tenure
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

You will work on complex event-driven systems and multi-region distributed architectures, addressing real-world challenges in consistency, idempotency, cross-region routing, reliability, and compliance. Responsibilities - Participate in the architecture design and development of core backend services for the copyright protection platform, writing high-quality Go code across modules including complaint intake, audit scheduling, enforcement execution, and appeal management. - Contribute to the design and implementation of event-driven architecture, building high-availability event flow pipelines based on EventBus/MQ that ensure reliable delivery and eventual consistency across cross-service business workflows. - Design, optimize, and maintain databases (MySQL/NoSQL) supporting efficient storage and querying at billion-scale data volumes, ensuring data integrity and consistency. - Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and RPC interfaces, ensuring efficient and secure data exchange between front-end applications, internal platforms, and external systems. - Participate in system design and data synchronization strategies for multi-DC (Multi-Data Center / Multi-VGeo) architecture, solving distributed challenges such as cross-region replication lag and read-after-write consistency. - Monitor and optimize system performance, identify and resolve potential bottlenecks, and improve system throughput and response speed. - Quickly respond to and resolve production environment issues, ensuring system stability and business continuity. - Collaborate closely with product managers, front-end engineers, algorithm teams, and other stakeholders to ensure high-quality and on-time project delivery.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: - Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. - Proficient in at least one backend programming language such as Go, Java, or C++; - Familiar with common database technologies such as MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB; understanding of index optimization and basic performance tuning. - Understanding of RESTful API design and development - Familiar with Linux-based operating systems and common commands; basic Shell scripting ability. - Strong problem-solving and logical thinking abilities, passion for new technologies, and a quick learning ability. Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a strong team-oriented mindset. Preferred Qualifications: - Understanding of microservices architecture and related technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc. - Experience in developing large-scale distributed systems; understanding of message queues (e.g., Kafka, EventBus), distributed transactions, and eventual consistency. - Familiarity with Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) or publish-subscribe patterns, with relevant hands-on experience. - Interest in or knowledge of copyright protection, content safety, or multimedia processing (e.g., audio/video fingerprinting, content matching). - Knowledge of Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) concepts and practices, including model training, deployment, and evaluation. - Open-source contributions, technical blog posts, or programming awards are a plus. - Go experience is a plus. - Familiarity with RPC frameworks (e.g., Thrift, gRPC) is a plus.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $128000 - $256000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
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2012

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